Gods, wasps, and stranglers the secret history and redemptive future of fig trees
They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers rainforest royalty more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers tells their amazing story.
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White River Junction, Vermont :
Chelsea Green Publishing,
2016.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Gods, wasps, and stranglers : |b the secret history and redemptive future of fig trees / |c Mike Shanahan. |
| 264 | 1 | |a White River Junction, Vermont : |b Chelsea Green Publishing, |c 2016. | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-196). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Snakes and ladders & tantalising figs -- Trees of life, trees of knowledge -- A long seduction -- banyans and the birth of botany -- Botanical monkeys -- Sex & violence in the hanging gardens -- Struggles for existence -- Goodbye to the gardeners, hello to the heat -- From dependence to domination -- The war of the trees -- The testimony of volcanoes -- Once destroyed, forever lost? -- A wedding invitation. | |
| 520 | |a They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers rainforest royalty more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways. Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers tells their amazing story. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Human-plant relationships. | |
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